Here's a quick summary of results and impressions from my fitting for the new 2021 Titleist T-Series irons.
I hit the new T100, T200, and T100S irons in that order. And there happened to be some last gen T100 and T200 irons at my fitting, so I warmed up with those first for a general baseline and feel.
The 121st U.S. Women's Amatuer will be held at Westchester Country Club August 2nd through the 8th with a full field of 156 of the world's best female amateur golfers.
The Westchester Country Club West Course will be set up at 6,488 yards and will play to a par of 36-36–72 for the championship.
At the top of the leader board in the 3rd U.S. Senior Women’s Open Championship in rain-delayed Round 1 on Thursday at Brooklawn Country Club in Fairfield, Conn., were a pair of rookies: Annika Sorenstam and Dana Ebster.
Sorenstam, of Sweden, a three-time U.S. Women’s Open champion, turned 50 last October and seemed ordained to step into the lead of this championship. The World Golf Hall of Famer birdied her first and last holes of the day in delivering a six-birdie, one-bogey effort that fell one stroke short of the 18-hole record for the fledgling championship, 66s by Laura Davies in 2018 at Chicago Golf Club and by Trish Johnson in 2019 at Pine Needles Lodge & Golf Club.
Titleist introduces seven new opportunities for golfers who are looking to increase launch and spin from their utility and long irons, including four options in the new U•505 model and three irons from the new T200 family.
Titleist has been the overwhelming most played utility iron on the PGA Tour for several years running and the addition of the new U•505 and T200 long irons will contribute to its most played position.
Revolutionary changes in the evolution of the Titleist T-Series advances the company’s mission of producing the world’s best irons. Titleist has been the most played iron on the PGA Tour for 16 of the last 17 years, including each of the last seven seasons. Not only is Titleist on pace to extend its favored status on the PGA Tour, the T100 continues to be most played iron model by the world’s best since its tour introduction at the 2019 U.S. Open.
The new T-Series iron family features new materials, processes and refinements that power exacting precision, performance and unmatched feel. The new T-Series irons includes four models – T100, T100•S, T200 and T300 – which will be available for fittings starting today and available in golf shops globally beginning August 26.
Golf Datatech, LLC, the golf industry’s leading independent market research firm for retail sales, consumer and trade trends, has unveiled the 2021 Mid-Year U.S. Golf Retail Performance & Rounds Played Report, analyzing retail sales of golf equipment, golf apparel, and rounds played over the first six-months of 2021.
Due to the impacts of the pandemic on normal economic activity, making comparisons to 2020 doesn’t tell the whole story, so Golf Datatech’s analysis also compares the performance of the first six-months of 2021 with the same period in 2019, which was the last “normal” year prior to the worldwide impacts of COVID-19.
PUMA Golf has introduced the PROADAPT Δ MID ($220) golf shoes. Designed in collaboration with style icon and professional golfer Rickie Fowler, the PROADAPT Delta MID features a PREMIUM FULL GRAIN LEATHER UPPER with a fashion-inspired MID-CUT HEIGHT for those who want to make a statement.
The increased collar height provides a new look and adds support around the ankles for golfers looking for extra stability.
The USGA has announced NCR Country Club in Kettering, Ohio, as the host site of the 4th U.S. Senior Women’s Open Championship, to be contested Aug. 25-28, 2022.
“As we kick off the 3rd U.S. Senior Women’s Open on Thursday, we couldn’t be more excited to announce that we are taking this championship to another venerable U.S. Women’s Open venue next year in NCR Country Club,” said John Bodenhamer, senior managing director, Championships. “The Senior Women’s Open continues to generate more and more buzz and excitement and has become a must-play event as the game’s greats turn 50. We’re grateful to have the opportunity to return to NCR and crown another worthy USGA champion.”
The United States Golf Association (USGA) has announced tee times for the first two rounds of the 2021 U.S. Senior Women’s Open Championship on Thursday, July 29 and Friday, July 30 at the 6,011-yard Brooklawn Country Club in Fairfield, Conn.
The U.S. Senior Women’s Open consists of 18 holes of stroke play each day from Thursday, July 29, through Sunday, Aug. 1. The starting field of 120 players will be cut after 36 holes to the low 50 scorers and ties. In the case of a tie after 72 holes, a two-hole aggregate playoff will commence immediately following the conclusion of the fourth round.
The 120 player field for the 3rd U.S. Senior Women's Open includes 11 U.S. Open champions, seven U.S. Women's Amateur champions, and two U.S. Senior Women's Open champions.
Brooklawn Country Club will be set up at 6,011 yards and will play to a par of 37-35–72.
The United States Golf Association (USGA) has announced tee times for the first two rounds of the 121st U.S. Women's Amateur Championship on Monday, Aug. 2 and Tuesday, Aug. 3, at Westchester Country Club’s West Course. The West Course will play at 6,488 yards and par 72 for the championship.
The U.S. Women’s Amateur consists of 36 holes of stroke play on Aug. 2 and 3, after which the 132-player field will be reduced to the low 64 scorers. There will be six rounds of match play at Westchester, starting Aug. 4. The championship is scheduled to conclude with a 36-hole final on Sunday, Aug. 8, beginning at 7 a.m. EDT.
Is there anything in golf better than a great streak? Whether it's a birdie run up the leaderboard, holes played without a bogey, or even consecutive victories, everyone is always captivated by streaks and wants to see them continue or end.
Mitsubishi Golf has put a permanent stamp on golf history by piling up victories on all major Tours for decades. And this dominant shaft company is making headlines again. This week Mitsubishi captured wins on both the PGA and LPGA Tours, building its victory total since 2004 to 512.
Nick Dunlap is going to hate seeing the calendar flip from July to August. Not after the month the 17-year-old from Huntsville, Ala., just produced. Dunlap capped off a remarkable four weeks on Saturday by claiming the biggest prize in junior golf, the 73rd U.S. Junior Amateur Championship at The Country Club of North Carolina.
Combining prodigious power with masterful touch on the greens, Dunlap defeated Cohen Trolio, 18, of West Point, Miss., 3 and 2, in Saturday’s 36-hole championship match. Just the second player from his state to reach a U.S. Junior Amateur final, Dunlap becomes the first to put his name on the trophy. The late Bradley Johnson lost the first 36-hole final in Junior history 16 years ago to Kevin Tway at Longmeadow (Mass.) Country Club.
PUMA Golf has unveiled its newest, elite golf shoe—the PROADAPT Δ Spectra ($250)—created in conjunction with PUMA’s ONLY SEE GREAT Campaign to celebrate moments of greatness in sports.
The PROADAPT Delta Spectra combines the best of ADAPT stability technologies and a bright, graphic design—to highlight the power of extraordinary moments that bring meaning to the game.
Cohen Trolio figured out a way to stop the 2021 U.S. Junior Amateur locomotive known as Luke Clanton: make more birdies. Trolio, 18, of West Point, Miss., registered five of them in a 10-hole stretch during Friday’s 6-and-5 semifinal victory at The Country Club of North Carolina to earn a spot in Saturday’s 36-hole championship match against Nicholas Dunlap.
Dunlap, 17, of Huntsville, Ala., rallied from an early 2-down deficit to defeat Luke Potter, 18, of Encinitas, Calif., 3 and 2.
In partnership with Foresight Sports, Bushnell Golf will be entering the domestic launch monitor market later this year with the Launch Pro, a personal launch monitor built on the industry’s best and most widely accepted technology.
“Bushnell Golf is committed to innovation, technology advancements and supporting the golfing consumer as they build confidence in their game. The Launch Pro will offer our core consumer access to the best technology in ball striking measurement and analysis, which will support our consumers in their pursuit of improvement,” said Vishak Sankaran, President of Bushnell. “Launch Pro also expands our offerings in the off-course, lifestyle-inspired golf segment. Launch Pro users will have access to multiple course simulations to enhance their in-home or off-course playing experience.”
The members at The Country Club of North Carolina will get a chance to see their favorite son for at least one more day. Jackson Van Paris, 17, who is getting a rare opportunity to compete in a USGA championship on his home course, opened match play on Wednesday in the 73rd U.S. Junior Amateur Championship with a comfortable 4-and-3 victory over fellow North Carolinian Spencer Turtz, of Charlotte.
Van Paris, an incoming freshman at Vanderbilt University, will join medalist Kelly Chinn – along with 14 of the other top-16-seeded players – in Thursday’s Round of 32. The next opponent for Van Paris will be incoming Georgia Tech freshman Benjamin Reuter, 18, of the Netherlands, at 7:12 a.m. ET.
The USGA and Bandon Dunes Golf Resort have announced an agreement that will bring 13 USGA amateur championships to the resort over 23 years. The relationship will begin with the 74th U.S. Junior Amateur in 2022 and run through the 2045 U.S. Junior Amateur and U.S. Girls’ Junior Championships, with eight different championships being played at the resort, including the U.S. Amateur, U.S. Women’s Amateur, the Walker Cup Match and the Curtis Cup Match.
The 2022 U.S. Junior Amateur will be conducted from July 25-30, with Bandon Dunes serving as the host course for both stroke play and match play, and Bandon Trails serving as the second stroke-play course. Dates and courses for the other championships will be announced in the future.
PUMA Golf has announced a unique addition to its line of premium apparel collections, this time with a focus on the classic, fun essentials of a perfect day on the course.
The SNACK SHACK lineup was created to celebrate the simple, enjoyable moments during a round of golf—the feel of a new glove, teeing up a new ball, the refreshing, ice-cold beverage on a hot afternoon, buying a round of delicious hot dogs for your buddies at the turn.
Inspired by the putters he has made for major winners and champions on the worldwide professional golf tours, Scotty Cameron has re-imagined one of his most iconic designs to create three new models called Champions Choice.
Crafted in a limited run to be released this summer, the new putters bring the sleek, tour-proven shapes of the Special Select family of putters together with an integrated Teryllium insert and Scotty Cameron’s revered “Button Back” setup, as well as unique graphics and accessories celebrating the history of winning with Scotty Cameron putters.
Kelly Chinn has a chance to join some elite company, including one of the greatest to ever play the game. Chinn, 18, of Great Falls, Va., who is headed to Duke University next month, carded a bogey-free, 8-under-par 64 on The Country Club of North Carolina’s Dogwood Course in Monday’s first round of stroke play of the 73rd U.S. Junior Amateur Championship.
Chinn, the 2018 U.S. Junior Amateur medalist, can join three-time champion Tiger Woods (1991-93), 1977 winner Willie Wood and 2010 champ Jim Liu as a multiple medalist. He’d love to join them as a champion as well. In his two previous starts, he was eliminated in the Round of 32 (2018) at Baltusrol Golf Club and in the semifinals (2019) at Inverness Club. The championship was canceled in 2020 due to COVID-19.
For nearly her entire life, Rose Zhang has made history with a golf club in her hands. She added to her illustrious list of accomplishments on Saturday, with a 6-and-4 victory over Bailey Davis to win the 72nd U.S. Girls’ Junior at Columbia Country Club in Chevy Chase, Md.
Zhang, who came into this week as the No. 1 player in the World Amateur Golf Ranking, now holds two USGA titles concurrently: the Girls’ Junior and the U.S. Women’s Amateur, which she won 11 months ago at Woodmont Country Club in Rockville, Md., just 8 miles from Columbia. Zhang is the eighth player to have won both championships and the first to have won the Women’s Amateur first.
Leading golf apparel brand Galvin Green has built on its award-winning ‘GameDay’ Part One range with the introduction of a 2021 Part Two collection inspired by the uncompromising precision of computer-generated technologies, matched with long-lasting garments that offer exceptional performance in all weather conditions.
Designed for golfers by golfers, the collection includes a host of new products for men, women and juniors – including an array of INSULA™ sweaters made 100% from recycled plastic bottles that recently won a prestigious global Sports Technology Award for Sustainability.
We've waited two years for an Open Championship, and the golf gods have rewarded our patience. The 149th Open Championship has produced record-setting performances, emotional meltdowns, and ball striking clinics from the game's biggest names.
And on this eve of the final round from Royal St. George's, all that remains to be seen is who the golf gods will smile upon to hoist the Claret Jug on Sunday.
Celebrating two weeks of links golf in the United Kingdom, FootJoy and Harris Tweed Hebrides have partnered to create a truly unique version of the popular FJ Premiere Series golf shoes called the Black Watch Packard.
The Black Watch cloth, from the Harris Tweed Hebrides Heritage Collection, has been chosen to feature on this limited edition Premiere Series Packard shoe.
Tour Edge, the pound for pound industry leader in performance and innovation, today introduces their new limited-edition Exotics Pro 721 Series: the Pro 721 Driver, Pro 721 Fairway and Pro 721 Hybrid.
Only 1000 of each will be made available to the end consumer in this special small batch “Straight from the Tour Van” series.
Reynolds Lake Oconee has announced the promotion of Jason Plazola to General Manager of The Club at Reynolds Lake Oconee.
“The appointment of Jason to the General Manager position is the next step in the growth of our team and the continued success of The Club,” said Tim Hong, Chief Operating Officer, Reynolds Lake Oconee. “We believe there is tremendous value in being able to promote someone from within our organization and his institutional knowledge and understanding of our community will pay dividends for years to come.”
Golf Datatech, LLC (www.golfdatatech.com), the golf industry’s leading independent market research firm for retail sales and consumer trends, today introduced the 8th Edition of its exclusive report on the Evolution of Custom Fitting Golf Equipment in the United States.
“Golf Datatech started analyzing this category well before it developed into what it is today,” said John Krzynowek, Partner at Golf Datatech. “We took our first look at custom fitting in 2001, before digital data or interchangeable shafts/heads were even invented.
True Spec Golf, the global leader in premium club fitting and building, is proud to announce that 20 of its North American locations have been named in Golf Digest’s America’s Best Clubfitters 2021-2022 guide.
Annually ranked by Golf Digest, GOLF Magazine & GOLF.com as an elite brand-agnostic fitter, the True Spec process brings experience, data, and service together to find the best equipment to improve your game.
First images of the new 2022 Mizuno ST-G driver were seen at The Open Championship today. Weight track technology has returned, but on closer inspection there are some clear visible differences from the ST200G. The most notable being a third weight track in the back bottom of the driver.
The shape of the ST-G 220 head appears similar, but refined. It looks deeper and less rounded than the ST200G, which theoretically could improve stability and manipulate launch easier.
The final major of the season is upon us and PUMA has their athletes ready for the show. Rickie Fowler and Emiliano Grillo will sport pieces from the AW21 Moving Day Collection, Bryson DeChambeau will wear PUMA’s famous MATTR and CLOUDSPUN polos and Gary Woodland will represent America’s heroes with pieces from the Volition America collection.
As the Open Championship approaches, PUMA Golf rounds out the major tournament looks by showing off the new Tracks drop, Moving Day Collection, as well as key pieces from the summer and fall season. Rickie Fowler will wear gear from PUMA’s Moving Day Collection—created to reflect the high performance shown under pressure by PUMA athletes on Tour. The collection features a new stacked four form stripe branding, with a single orange strip that represents Moving Day.
After making bogey-double bogey on his second and third holes to lose most of the four-stroke lead he began the day with in the 41st U.S. Senior Open, Jim Furyk got back to what has made him one of the best players of his era and the 2003 U.S. Open champion: consistency.
Furyk, 51, settled down and played 2-under-par golf over the next 11 holes to restore his advantage and went on to capture the championship in his debut. The Jacksonville, Fla., resident who grew up in West Chester, Pa., completed a final round of 1-over-par 71 for a total of 7-under 273, good for a three-stroke victory over two-time U.S. Open champion Retief Goosen and 2003 Masters winner Mike Weir. The victory made Furyk the eighth man to win both the U.S. Open and U.S. Senior Open titles, joining a list that includes Jack Nicklaus, Arnold Palmer, Hale Irwin and Lee Trevino.
One hundred years after hosting the 1921 U.S. Open, Columbia Country Club is set to host the 72nd U.S. Girls Junior Championship.
Columbia C.C. will be set up at 6,116 yards and will play to a par of 35-35–70.
Jim Furyk doubled his lead in weather-delayed Round 3 of the 41st U.S. Senior Open Championship on Saturday, shooting a 4-under-par 66 to take a four-stroke advantage over Stephen Ames into Sunday’s final round at Omaha Country Club.
Furyk, the 2003 U.S. Open champion who turned 51 in May, is attempting to become the eighth player to win both the U.S. Open and the U.S. Senior Open, an illustrious list that includes Jack Nicklaus, Arnold Palmer, Lee Trevino, Billy Casper and Gary Player. Furyk is also seeking to join nine other golfers who have won the U.S. Senior Open in their first attempt.
Billy Andrade and Stephen Ames, a pair of 57-year-olds, each shot 5-under-par 65 to share the Round 1 lead on Thursday in the 41st U.S. Senior Open Championship at Omaha Country Club.
Andrade, of Bristol, R.I., shot one of two bogey-free rounds on Thursday, with the other turned in by Wes Short Jr., of Austin, Texas, who opened with a 4-under 66 and is alone in third place. Andrade, whose best finish in six previous U.S. Senior Open starts is a tie for sixth in 2015 at Del Paso Country Club in Sacramento, Calif., birdied all three par-5 holes in his afternoon round on the hilly Omaha layout and birdied Nos. 16 and 17 to earn a share of the lead with Ames, who had played in the morning.
As athletes continue to return to competition, Adidas is celebrating sport this summer with their biggest multi-sport assortment of performance footwear to date. With the celebration of all sports, all teams, and all athletes at its core, the collection mirrors the renewed significance of sports as athletes are united once again.
Made up of 85 footwear pieces tailored to the specific needs of athletes across 17 sports, the collection features the very best of Adidas performance innovation, unified in a crisp solar red and white colorway. This integration of solar red is a nod to their longstanding heritage of launching our pinnacle technologies for elite sports competitions in this bold colorway; uniting athletes of today with sporting legends of the past.
The 41st U.S. Senior Open Championship gets underway this week from Omaha Country Club, which hosts the championship for a second time.
Only seven courses in history have hosted this event two or more times, and this week Omaha Country Club will set up at 6,891 yards and play to a par of 35-35–70. The yardage for each round of the championship will vary due to course setup and conditions.
